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I don't! I know Xfinity does this today, and I'm guessing copied Fon's model. I think it goes to my point about breaking ToS: ISPs sell Internet. They don't wa
by schmichael 4y ago
I don't! I know Xfinity does this today, and I'm guessing copied Fon's model.
I think it goes to my point about breaking ToS: ISPs sell Internet. They don't want to compete with their own customers reselling that Internet. That's the business they're already in! Instead what Xfinity did is made it a value-add for customers: wherever you go, if you're near an Xfinity router you can get free wifi.
- detaro 4y agoHelium didn't "sell internet" in a really comparable sense.
- arcticbull 4y agoSure they were. Really, really slow internet. [edit] Unless you meant the fact literally nobody used it and all their revenue came from selling base stations, in which case you're right, they never really did operate an ISP. They operated a Potemkin ISP.
- detaro 4y agoIf I can't send a TCP packet over it, it is not "Internet" IMHO. Combined with the extremely slow speeds these kind of networks really are their own thing.
- arcticbull 4y agoThe ability to send a TCP packet to any destination on the internet is basically the definition of the internet. There's no minimum speed limit for the internet :) what is its own thing is the physical layer. Wikipedia agrees: > ... LoRa and LoRaWAN define a Low Power, Wide Area (LPWA) networking protocol designed to wirelessly connect battery operated devices to the internet in regional, national or global networks ... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa